5-2 CCLOW national advisory committee and the researcher

CCLOW has an executive director, Aisla Thomson, who works out of the main office in Toronto. She developed the project with Gladys Watson, who was on staff with CCLOW at the time, and with an advisory committee from across the country.

The advisory committee members are CCLOW members active as literacy and upgrading workers, as researchers in the area of women's literacy and upgrading, and as executive members of the organization.

Pramila Aggarwal is trying to make sense of the multi-dimensional location of immigrant women in Canadian society through her work on the ground and academic research. She has been involved with education and training of immigrant women workers for seven years. She is on the staff of Metro Labour Education Centre, Toronto.

Evelyn Battell has been an Adult Basic Education instructor for 14 years and is concerned with providing options and dignity for both instructors and students.

Dawn Elliot is a member of CCLOW's Board of Directors. For over 10 years she has developed and implemented community programs for teen mums, transient women and youth.

Frances Ennis is a co-founder of Rabbitown Literacy Program, a community- based adult literacy program in St. John's. For the last 15 years she has been involved in community development and adult education.

Lynn Fogwill is a "founding mother" of CCLOW, a past board member and current NWT-CCLOW Coordinator. She is Manager for Literacy and Adult Education programs for the Department of Education, Government of the Northwest Territories and is deeply committed to social justice work, including women's issues in Canadian society.

Michele Kuhlmann is on staff with East End Literacy, Toronto, and is particularly concerned with literacy issues in the family.

Kathleen Rockhill teaches feminist studies in the Department of Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. She has done research in literacy since 1972.

Susan Witter is Dean of Continuing Education at Fraser Valley College in British Columbia. She is a past president of CCLOW. Susan has a long-standing commitment to promoting access to learning opportunities for educationally disadvantaged women.

Two other women, members of CCLOW and well-versed in research issues for women, literacy and training, also played an advisory role at a crucial time in the process. Elaine Gaber-Katz and Susan Wismer worked with the project for a day of consultation and clarification at the midway mark of the data collection.

Although these women cannot be held responsible for the final product, their experience and response is embedded in the work.

The researcher is Betty-Ann Lloyd, a white, middle-class woman with experience in secretarial work, weaving, school bus driving, mothering, make-work projects, community journalism, CBC radio current affairs, lovering, university lecturing, feminist community activism, graduate work in the social organization of knowledge, volunteer tutoring in a community-based literacy program, policy research in literacy, bureaucratic co-ordination of provincial community and workplace literacy activities, freelance research, and clear language and design consulting. She has lived almost all of her adult life in Nova Scotia-in rural Cape Breton and in Halifax. She was born on the prairies and raised in the suburbs of many large cities across Canada. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Dalhousie University doing interdisciplinary work in feminist research, critical theory, language and power, social welfare policies and training opportunities for women who are single mothers on social assistance.